The Best Investors You’ve Never Heard of – Here’s how Barclays Global beats the market–and why you can’t.

Sep 27th, 2006 | Filed under: Institutional Investing

By: Justin Fox, Fortune Magazine
Published: June 16, 2003

This article is several years old, but provides some interesting historical context to the current paradigm shift in portfolio management.  From William Sharpe, to Barr Rosenberg’s “Barr’s Bionic Betas” (eventually renamed BARRA…where was that corporate branding firm when he really needed them?), to Ronald Kahn and the triple Ph.D.’s at Barclays, this makes for an interesting read.

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